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Jul 18, 2015 Everybody has heard of Field marshal Montgomery, the hero of El Alamein and the commander of the British land forces in Europe but do you know all the facts below? Here are 20, in chronological order, about his extraordinary life. ...War History Online, 2 weeks ago

This is a very readable account of the headquarters operated by Bernard Montgomery in North Africa, Italy and North-West Europe between 1942 and 1945. Monty is not everyone's cup of tea, at home or abroad. He had a bad habit of peeing off his ...

From 1941 to 1945, Britain and the US were united in the common goal of defeating Germany and Japan, but they otherwise had very different interests and ambitions. The result was the combination of cooperation and conflict over military priorities ...

The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. What they neglected to tell you is that, more often than youd think, quite a few things are mightier than the pen. Things like bagpipes, crosses and sometimes just a really magnetic personality. Bill ...

Medicare officials are penalizing 721 hospitals with high rates of preventable hospital-acquired conditions that potentially harmed patients. Those hospitals will have their Medicare payments reduced by 1 percent over the fiscal year that runs from ...

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 By Max Hastings In Evelyn Waugh's great novel Sword of Honour, the British officer Guy Crouchback embraces war in 1939 as a crusade against the modern ...

A Bridge Too Far A Bridge Too Far By Cornelius Ryan Fifty miles south, in towns and villages close to the Belgian border, the Dutch were jubilant. They watched incredulously as the shattered remnants of Hitler's armies in norther France and ...

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 Volume One of The Liberation Trilogy An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 Volume One of The Liberation Trilogy By Rick Atkinson At an aid station in Tebourba, the dead ...